Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits
Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits | |
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Genre | Reality |
Narrated by | Douglas Henshall |
Country of origin |
United States United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 5 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Dan Gold Cate Hall |
Camera setup | Multi-camera set-up |
Running time | 45-48 minutes |
Production company(s) | Wall to Wall Media |
Release | |
Original network |
Netflix BBC |
Original release |
April 9, 2018 (UK) June 29, 2018 (US) – TBD |
Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits (originally released in the UK as Secret Agent Selection: WW2) is an American/British reality competition television program released by Netflix on June 29, 2018.
Premise
In 1940, during the height of World War II conflict in Europe, British Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton founded the Special Operations Executive. The SOE was a secret organization responsible for espionage and reconnaissance during wartime efforts. The organization would take everyday citizens from all backgrounds and walks of life and put them through rigorous training to extract the traits necessary for a secret agent.
Now, a group of 14 modern day recruits will be put through the same rigorous testing as those agents in 1940 to determine if they would have had what it took to be an agent of SOE.
Cast
The Trainers:
- Lieutenat Colonel Adrian Weale, commanding officer
- Nicky Moffat, instructor
- Mike Rennie, military psychologist
- Rod Bailey, SOE historian
The Recruits:
- Samy Ali, ex-armed forces
- Rohini Bajaj, doctor
- Roger Barris, retired investment banker
- Charlotte Beauclerk, interpreter
- Will Beresford-Davies, paralegal
- Sebe Camara, council administrator
- Debbey Clitheroe, drama teacher
- Rob Copsey, ex-armed forces
- Dan Dewhirst, corporate developer
- Lizzie Jeffreys, research scientist
- Alastair Stanley, maths graduate
- Paul Stone, entertainer
- Magda Thomas, interpreter
- Vicki Wright, former police officer
Selection
In the first episode of the series, the original 14 recruits were put through an initial 4-day selection process, to see who would make it to training.
Poker Chips
Recruits | Observational | Mechanical | Morse | Obstacle | Verbal | Blocks | Matrices | Psychology | Groupstacle | Pond Test |
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Ali | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Bajaj | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Barris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Beauclerk | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Beresford-Davies | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||
Camara | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
Clitheroe | ||||||||||
Copsey | ||||||||||
Dewhirst | ? | |||||||||
Jeffreys | ||||||||||
Stanley | ||||||||||
Stone | ? | |||||||||
Thomas | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||||
Wright | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- The Recruit had an Outstanding performance in this portion of the test.
- The Recruit had a Good performance in this portion of the test.
- The Recruit had an Above Average performance in this portion of the test.
- The Recruit had a Below Average performance in this portion of the test.
- It is not revealed what this chip means
- The Recruit Failed this portion of the test.
- The trainers did not put a chip on the board.
Episodes
No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "Selection" | April 9, 2018 (UK) / June 29, 2018 (US) |
The series opens by charting the beginnings of SOE. The students face the Student Assessment Board - an intense 4-day course to discover who has the raw talent to progress to the full training. DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
After deliberation, the training officers decided which 4 recruits would not move forward to training. The eliminated recruits were Charlotte BEAUCLERK, Sebe CAMARA, Paul STONE, and Vicki WRIGHT. The remaining 10 Recruits were loaded into a truck and taken to their first day of training. Note: Based on the scoring board the recruits were also took part in a Verbal Skills test, a test involving Blocks, Matrices, a Psychological evaluation, and a "Groupstacle" test. However, none of these tests were aired in the episode. | |||
2 | 2 | "Training" | April 16, 2018 (UK) / June 29, 2018 (US) |
The students training begins as they learn how to use guns, explosives and silent killing techniques. We learn how these skills all came together and helped SOE pull off one of the most audacious assassinations of WWII. | |||
3 | 3 | "Survival" | April 23, 2018 (UK) / June 29, 2018 (US) |
The students go to the remote Scottish Highlands where they learn the survival skills required for life in the field. They are schooled in some of the same techniques which prepared a group of agents to halt Hitler's atomic ambitions. | |||
4 | 4 | "Finishing School" | April 30, 2018 (UK) / June 29, 2018 (US) |
The students attend the SOE "finishing school" where they will learn the skills needed to operate undercover inside enemy territory such as lock-picking and sending coded messages. They then face a mock interrogation. | |||
5 | 5 | "The Final Scheme" | May 8, 2018 (UK) / June 29, 2018 (US) |
As the immersive history series draws to a close, eight of the original students have fallen by the wayside. The six remaining survivors undertake a 24 hour practice mission that will test the skills they have learned. |